On this blog, I -- John Lofland, jlofland@dcn.org -- report on social life and organization in the Old North area of Davis, California sub specie aeternitatis.

Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Season of Street Sign Theft Is Upon Us (261)

1.

Old North Davis Street signs are stolen on a
fairly predictable cycle that corresponds to large numbers of students leaving town. They desire to take mementos of their stay in Davis
and our colorful street signs present attractive targets -- targets that are
especially attractive to alcohol fueled groups traveling on foot under the
cover of darkness.

And so it is that now -- the end of the current academic
year -- at least one more has gone missing -- the one at C and 6th. And the one at B and 6th has been the subject of energetic effort that failed but came close (images 1 and 2).

The other day someone faulted the City for not having
theft-proof screws on the signs so that people could not so easily detach them. This
person may have a point, but the sad fact is that many signs are taken by brute force
without the nicety of undoing screws. Thus, the entire sign array at C and 6th
is now missing! And the one pictured here almost yielded to brute force.